Wednesday, August 24, 2011

By the time you see this I will be in Chicago getting ready to take my first class. What's on my worktable of course has nothing to do with that but I thought you would want to see what I am doing. These are charms that I will be swapping on the Tim Holtz cruise to the Caribbean that I am going on at the end of September. (I still can't believe my husband agreed to go to this with me and still let me go to Chicago to attend the CREATE convention.)

So here is a closeup of the charms I am working on. They are made from shrink plastic and are cut from the Tim Holtz "Caged Bird" die. (We are supposed to use all Tim Holtz stuff to make these charms.) I colored them with alcohol ink before I shrunk them and then attached a little birds nest made of wire wrapped around 3 egg shaped pearls.

I was working on this journal cover a few days before that but I haven't bound the journal yet because I need to know how many are going to be in the circle journal group so I have enough pages in it for everyone to work on. (You can see the practice journal that I did since I have never done a piano hinge binding with bamboo skewers.) The circle journal group is called "A Little Bit Of Asia" and will be, of course, done in stuff that is asian. (In case you're wondering the group is a closed group and is the same set of people from the Marie Antoinette journal which we just finished.) One of these days I will get my Marie journal all in the binding and post it here for everyone to see.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Yup... I will be leaving in a few short hours to drive down to Chicago to attend the CREATE convention which is put on my Clothe, Paper, Scissors magazine. However you need not suffer withdrawal from your daily download of images from my blog because I set it all up to do it automatically while I'm away. (Stupid that I never thought to see if that could done before now.) Anyways I'll be back on Sunday, late in the afternoon, exhausted but happy after taking 7 different classes.

Monday, August 22, 2011

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I will be going out of town tomorrow morning and I realized that I had never thought of doing pre-scheduled postings so that you could all get your daily image fix while I was gone. This one is simply a test to make sure that it works so enjoy the extra images.

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Here are the rest of the eyelet and brads to go with all the paper collections. So sorry that I forgot to post them yesterday. I was so busy gathering stuff for the family picnic yesterday that I just plain forgot.